A variety of lecturers talked security, analysis and big data at an event Thursday to an audience of journalism students and local reporters. The speakers introduced the audience to new ways of using technology to tell stories, while also cautioning them about the security risks inherent to navigating life in a digital age.
On Thursday, UW-Madison students and community members participated in the #CancelKavanaugh Walkout Against Sexual Assault in response to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s trial.
Madison city officials are warning residents to keep sandbags in place as rain forecasts over the next several days raise concerns for a new round of flash flooding. City officials report both Lakes Monona and Mendota rose five inches following rainstorms Sunday and Monday, but are still down six and nine inches respectively from their highs during the August storms.
Students of color report feeling isolated on UW-Madison’s predominantly white campus, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math classes.
Voter registration on campus in 2018 is comparable to that of a presidential election year, which usually boasts much higher turnout.
The 31-year-old woman spotted the man on 600 block of East Washington Avenue around 6:30 p.m. The police identified the suspect as 58-year-old Waldemar Santiago-Rivera. They arrested him on charges of disorderly conduct while armed, felon in possession of a knife, as well as lewd, lascivious behavior and exposure.
Alexander Shashko, a lecturer in the Afro-American Studies department at UW-Madison, spoke to students about misogyny and hypermasculinity in hip-hop at a Men Against Sexual Assault meeting Wednesday evening.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee balanced its budget at the cost of trimming down faculty and adjusting academic programs.
In an effort to further support community-engaged scholarship, the Morgridge Center for Public Service hired 10 faculty members as “Morgridge Fellows.” Fellows were selected through a juried process. They will participate in a year-long learning community with the goals of participating in “teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives,” the Morgridge Center said in a statement. In the upcoming year, with a focus on developing community-based learning courses and research, the fellows will be able to build a unique interdisciplinary team of mentors and peers from the teaching and learning community. Michael Maguire, one of the fellows selected for the program, said the fellows present their professional and personal life experiences in order to collaborate on the Community-Engaged Scholarship. “At monthly meetings, fellows will share dialogue and resources related to their role at UW-Madison, contributing to the robust body of knowledge and inquiry about what contributes to excellence in CES,” Maguire said. In addition to discussing personal experiences related to the scholarship, fellows collaborate in an effort to make positive changes to CES. Maguire said the fellows analyze CES during monthly meetings by “identifying past and current CES assets, and areas for expanding or making a positive change to CES on our campus and in the communities we serve.”
UW-Madison’s new Contemporary Social Problems Initiative was granted over $1 million for research on social, economic and health problems among middle-class families by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduation Education. The two-year grants are intended for research on societal issues such as improving health care, economic conditions and psychological states.
Conservative students on campus oppose the ice cream legislation, but they say it’s not for the reasons Palin suggests. Instead of saying the bill represents political correctness gone too far, they argued instead that it is an irresponsible use of ASM resources, which is something they feel Palin’s article misrepresented.
For the second time in six months, Madison’s city council voted to remove the Confederate memorial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
New results from the Department of Public Instruction’s Forward Exam show that more than half of students in the state did not score proficient or better in language arts, math and science.
Student Judiciary heard the discrimination case Sophia Alzaidi, a former Student Services Finance Committee member, brought against the Nominations Board when she was not selected to be on the committee this session.
Former President Barack Obama’s newest list of endorsed candidates includes Democrats in tight races around Wisconsin.
The suspect in Saturday’s murder-suicide had a history of domestic abuse charges dating back to 2009, according to court records. The Dane County Medical Examiner identified the deceased as 39-year-old James Sykes and 34-year-old Sherry Waller.
Madison Alder Matt Phair, District 20, announced Monday he would not seek a fifth term on the city council in the upcoming spring 2019 election.
In light of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing that gained national attention last week, UW-Madison student organization Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment released a statement regarding the current campus climate for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
The Hoofer Marina Project is now underway, set to remodel the Memorial Union lakefront marina funded by nearly $2 million in donations.
In addition to worries over facility security, students and staff also expressed concern about student athletes’ access to health care, including mental health care, and reporting protocol. The results, which were gathered by Assistant Athletic Director Walter Dickey per the request of UW Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez, will help the department prioritize programming improvements in coming years.
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